The queen's slave trader
Subtitle: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the trafficking in human souls
By: by Nick Hazlewood.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Hawkins, John, Sir, 1532-1595; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Relations with slave traders; Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Slave traders -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Documents the slave trade in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, exploring the life of Elizabeth I's personal slave trader to chronicle his controversial career and the political and religious factors that influenced the period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-400) and index.